Tag Archives: Matt Ridley

I read the following in Howard Marks’s latest book (p. 138): “Since the investors of the ‘I Know’ school, described in chapter 14, feel it’s possible to know the future, they decide what it will look like, build portfolios designed … Continue reading →

Growing up, I had a bit of an eclectic taste in music. My taste included everything from the Brits–Beatles, Stones, and especially the Who (I would listen to Quadrophenia at least once per day)–to early David Bowie, Talking Heads, U2, … Continue reading →

If I am correctly reading the notes taken by the Inoculated Investor (http://inoculatedinvestor.blogspot.com/) at Charlie Munger’s annual meeting recently, then Munger is a big fan of Matt Ridley’s Rational Optimist too. The Google document: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B7X_KYnqpniZNTY4YjdkY2UtNjU5Ny00ZmYxLTg0YWItODJkMWY0ZjBhNzA1&hl=en_US I disagree with the conclusion … Continue reading →

From the Rational Optimist Blog to the right: The Rational Optimist has won the Hayek Prize from the Manhattan Institute. I will be giving the Hayek Lecture when I accept the prize later in the year. The Hayek Prize honors … Continue reading →

I have been writing for several weeks that I would write a review of Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist. I believe it is the most important book of 2010 if only to shake us out of the rigid pessimism brought on … Continue reading →